About 1 thousand residents of Finland will receive payments due to the fence on the border with the Russian Federation

In Finland, about 1,000 landowners will receive compensation, as their plots were affected during the construction of the fence on the border with Russia. This was announced on February 6 by the press service of the country's border guard.

"The National Land Service of Finland has begun to determine the amount of compensation for about 1 thousand landowners. The examination confirms that the landowners will receive fair compensation," the statement said.

It is noted that the country's border guard service has already paid the first compensation.

It is expected that all target sections of the fence will be built by the end of summer. Further, the project may need only spot finishing work.

Suffer with a fence: Finland wants to permanently leave a fence along the border with the Russian Federation

They do not plan to demolish it even after the settlement in Ukraine, although the republic is experiencing a crisis due to the severance of ties with Moscow.

The MEP, Finnish army General Pekka Toveri, told Izvestia in December that the fence on the border of Russia and Finland, which Helsinki plans to erect in 2026, will remain in place even if the situation in Ukraine is resolved. The authorities are completing the next stage of construction of the barrier. The 200-kilometer fence will cost the country several hundred million euros, but the exact figure has not been disclosed.

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